In the 2005 Stanford Commencement Address, Steve Jobs recalls1, “None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography.” He then goes on to make an important point, “…of course, it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college…you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future…”
